Issue 2005, May 25, 2006

Arts

Artistic flowering
Gore warms my heart; Harper warms my planet
Straight writers and artists recognized, pt. II
Volume 41 Number 2015 August 3 - August 10/2006

Music

Hellishly Hot
Alkaline Trio crafts a darkly epic sound
Hipsters heed Wolfmother's rocking howl
On-a-roll Ben Harper calls for a revolution

Travel

Seattle's catacombs tunnel into a fiery past
Camping around, yurt-style
Chilcotin rodeo racers live on skill and nerve

Theatre

Salome
The Birthday Party
A Bright Particular Star

Music Arts

Lang Lang expands horizons

Visual Arts

Images from an early voyeur

Comedy

Comic Apio cleaned up and found his voice
Theatre

Arts Notes

Jessie Nominees Announced
Literary critical care

Arts Choices

Indian Influences
Queens for a day
Artistic feeding frenzy
1,001 nights in one
Ivy league luminaries
Global flamenco

Arts Time Out

Dance
Music
Comedy
Literary Events
Et Cetera
Galleries
Museums
Out of Town
Comedy

Letters

Taxation and better use of resources keys to daycare
Carrots and sticks neededto slow global warming
Friends don't let friends run ridiculous advertising

News and Views

Redundant case of the Dose
Aquarium expansion plans in hot water

Straight Talk

Orpheum project moves to next stage
Holden beholden?
World Police and Fire Games coming
Youth advocate pushes buttons
Legal beagle heads local business group
Clarification on Success Realty buildings in East Van
Champion for the poor dies in bicycle accident
Just like old times
Multinationals thrash consumers in court
Rally planned for Lebanon
Clifford Olson - parole denied
Vancouver Olympics more expensive than Turin's Games
City racks up more legal bills
Whale lovers threaten court action
City of Richmond prepares to avoid the fate of New Orleans
Kettlewell fights for adopted granny Krawczyk
June Critical Mass smashes records
Commuter paper fined for confusing ads with editorial
Watts opposes Port Mann bridge twinning 'in isolation'
Do any politicians pay attention to what's happening in the North American convention industry?
Premier's office killed Ballem's lab-reform initiative
GVRD board receives update on Camp Howdy
CanWest paper still closed

Straight Issues

Afghans repeatedly invaded
Vote to extend Canada's military role in Afghanistan

Commentary

Islanders lose grip on forests

Victoria Secrets

Ministries broke money regs

Sports

NHL's useless obsession with the tried-and-true

Savage Love

Dan Savage's anti-Santorum feud continues...

Health

Controlling flu calls for a shift in the culture
Diabetes is a tough road

Health Features

Canada: The world's non-smoking magical kingdom

Health Notes

Shared yoga mats might carry nasty germs
Shocking discovery: watching TV decreases levels of physical activity!
What's a potato stick?
McNuggets are healthy?
You are what you eat - so eat well

Dot Comment

The sweet siren song of high-end earphones
Stylish new iPod hi-fi setup speaks for itself

Geek of the Week

StatCounter

Features

Spinning Immigration

Fashion Plate

Darling defines daring in wearable extremes

Style Watch

For summer '06 wear nothing but a Smile

Kool Thing

Surplus jacket

Chic of the Week

OPI's new Designer Series

Books

The Book of Longing / Leonard Cohen
Absurdistan / Gary Shteyngart
The reluctant memoirist

Movies

Secret history
Jackman is too happy for the tabloids
Pearce hits cinema's outback
Docs do crabby-cool Canada
Marathon Seattle film fest brings the music

Payback Time

Chris Fehst vs. Adrian Mack

Time Out Events

Forums
Take Action
Benefits
Fashion
Et Cetera
Kids' Stuff
Sports
Take Action
Benefits
Fashion
Et Cetera
Kids’ Stuff
Out Of Town

Cartoons

Arnould
Ernie Pook's Comeek
Red Meat
Van Stralen
Tar Paper Town
Way Off Main

City Singles

Single of the Week - Tamara
Singles of the Week - Michelle | Skidge

Careers

Advertising Sales Associate
Web Programmer
Retail Advertising Sales Associate

Blogs

Joining the Web, version 2.0
Welcome to the Views Blog

Straight.com

About the Straight
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Blog - Sports

NHL draft: bargaining with the devil
Floyd Landis - alpine high
The incredible shrinking team
Hasta Luego, Bertuzzi
Big Bert's move bad news for circulation directors

Blog - Politics

Assembly of First Nations responds to Stephen Harper's call for a judicial inquiry into "racially divided fishery"
Chief Graham's world is changing
Emerson's leaving quite a legacy
NPA council jams with the best of them
Historian says EU would find our snow attractive; maybe so, but are we having fun being snowed?
Stephen Harper, clubbed seals, and the West End Girls (together again)
Harper woos animal lovers
Clinton transcript on peak oil
Gordo grudge match II
Gordo grudge match!
Cadman charges chump change compared to Carline's income
Harper clones Premier Campbell's winning formula

Blog - Movies

Mistress spices up Hollywood cliche
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